Vista Support and USB2 Support???

Vista Support and USB2 Support???

[George Styles]

Hi,

Ive just played with KVM for the first time - wow! ive never got WinXP installed so quickly on a vm (and i tried i think all the solutions, exception VMWare ESX)... im well impressed with SMP support, and how easy it is to get the thing booted... i was installing XP in 10 mins :)

Im very impressed, and want to pursue my usage of KVM...

So... i did a successful install of XP, Hardy Heron,a dn they both went great.

Then I tried to install Vista and Server 2003 (obviously on seperate machines)... they both hung during the expanding files phase of install. (by hung, i mean the mouse pointer stops responding, and the CPU usage of the KVM process goes to 0%).

Ive since re-tried a few times, and got Vista (32) at least installed, but it boots to a bluescreen with a message suggesting my VM doesnt have proper APIC support...

Im not that bothered about Vista, but would like to get Server 2003 working properly..

Im using Hardy Heron 64 bit server as my host OS, with the distro-supplied kernel and kvm. Its running on a Intel Mac Pro (early 2008) 8 core Xeon beast!

uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP

it looks like KVM 1:62 is the version in the Ubuntu repo.

So my question is
1. Should I build a more recent verison of KVM from source? google says that Vista support was added in KVM 21 in May 2007 - im guessing that has made it to Ubuntu by now! i find the version numbering of KVM very confusing...

My other (unrelated) question is:

2. How well does USB passthrough work in KVM... does it support USB2? im thinking of a digital TV card, which is isosynchroncous and needs bulk transfers, and a webcam that also needs isosyncronous support... anyone have any experience of how well this is likely to work

For the record, ive tried those devices on pretty much every VM solution out there, on both PC and Mac, and VMWare fusion on the Mac was the only one where the USB2 support worked well with those devices... Ive never seen it work on Windows. Not tried any other solutions on Linux except Xen and KVM..

cheers

g

Re: Vista Support and USB2 Support???

[Thomas Mueller]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:16:46 -0400, George Styles wrote:


> 
> uname -a
> Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP
> 
> it looks like KVM 1:62 is the version in the Ubuntu repo.
> 
> So my question is
> 1. Should I build a more recent verison of KVM from source? google says
> that Vista support was added in KVM 21 in May 2007 - im guessing that
> has made it to Ubuntu by now! i find the version numbering of KVM very
> confusing...
> 
> 

i got Windows Vista Business 64bit running with kvm-70. kvm-69 didn't 
work for me. 

also check what version of kvm modules you are runnig with "modinfo kvm". 
had once the problem, that there were the vanilla kernel kvm modules used 
instead of the self compiled ones.

- Thomas